A Writer’s Journal

Archive for May, 2009

Let’s see, I have been very busy with a lot of things this week, but since The Official Start of the series on May 7, 2009, I have gotten over 50, 000 words written for the first Novel Guardian Wolf. Cordelia and Rune leave me baffled most of the time as I write them, but it all seems to be working. Eden Ashe and my mother have both been reading full chapters as I produce them. It’s interesting how two different people can get to totally different things out of a story. Eden has one view and my mother has another, but they both say that it is working, so I am just going to go with it for now and hope for the best. According to how I plan a rough draft, I have about 6 more chapters and maybe a epilogue (and maybe the prologue, too) to write. I am hoping that’s all that is left, but my character seem to have other ideas of what they want to be doing. I can’t wait to get story done, because *I* want to know how it all ends and know if Cordelia and Rune are going to make to their happily-ever-after, or if the dark Mage will kill them both! I am killing myself with suspense of it all. I guess that’s a good thing, because I am hoping my readers (When I get them) will be in just as much suspense as I am. I have some side knitting projects going on right now, so, I am going to go work on Cordelia’s Market Bag and Shawl for a little while before I go to do something things. I hope to have another chapter done before bed tonight.

I have been slowly working on my new Black Wolf series. I have the novels names. (I need them or I can’t seem to make myself function as a writer. So just know they are working titles.) I have characters names, and I have the beginnings of a fantasy world for them to live in. I love the world of the Undying, but I was nearly burnt out on it. It was good to take the break when I did. I will continue to work with Eden on Warrior until it is done, but it’s not one that is my responsibility, so the brunt of it is going to fall to her to write and to plot. As always, Elburon is in the back of my mind. I thought I was going to get back to it, but it seems it is best left to the fall and winter months. So I will make my schedule according to it. I want to start getting these stories finished and ready to send out. I WANT to be a published writer, but I still have to figure out the marketing end of it. So, as I work myself up this month to start editing Undying Savage, I will work on the Black Wolf world and come up with a different name for the world, if it’s needed. I so love to world build. People could pay me to build their fantasy worlds for them and I would be a happy person.

p.s Happy Mother’s Day!!

Happy Mom’s Day to all you Moms out there. As you can see, I have been busy writing Black Wolf with Cordelia and Rune. I am having a ton of fun with them! It’s closer to the type of fantasy I write for myself. It’s not that I don’t enjoy writing Undying, it’s that it’s more of a modern or urban fantasy then High/Epic fantasy. I don’t read enough of the former to really know that I am doing something unique with the genre. I hope I am and I can only assume that I am because, well, I just don’t read that much of it. Anyway, it’s Mother’s Day, and while I’d love to spend the whole day writing in silent bliss, my kids would like to spend the day with them, so I am off to the shindig at my younger sister’s house.

I am on an enforced time out. I need to get the house cleaned up and do some other things that I have been putting off while I have been on my four mouth writing binge. When that is done, I think I will delve into a new world I have been thinking about and begin the editing on the beginning stories of Undying. I want to get back to Elburon, but I am not sure I am ready for that kind of intensity again for another few months. Elburon is usually a fall/winter project. We’ll see what happens. This month I will be reading fiction books (fantasy and romance) and books on publishing.